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  Madame Butterfly (film), 461, 487, 493

  Magnin, Rabbi, 191, 232, 235-38

  Mamoulian, Rouben, 353, 359

  Malibu, 178, 296-98, 303-9, 311-16, 384, 491

  Mankiewicz, Herman (“Mank”), 261, 347, 358, 436-37, 487

  Mankiewicz, Sarah, 296, 355

  Mannheimer, Al (Maurice Rapf s cousin), 470-72, 473-74, 491

  Mannix, Eddie, 377, 380

  March, Freddie, 177, 359, 364, 366, 428-29

  Marion, Frances (writer), 17

  Marx Brothers, 239, 436-37, 461

  Marx, Zeppo, 260, 262, 436

  Maupassant, Guy de, 199, 360

  Mayer, Irene, 115, 296. See also Selznick, Irene

  Mayer, L. B. (Louis), 25, 90, 93, 100, 114-17, 121-23, 145, 147-50, 154-55, 215-17, 292, 377, 381, 406, 439-40, 483-86

  Mayer, Margaret, 295-96, 382, 484-85

  Mayer-Schulberg Studio, 114, 117, 125, 136

  Méliès, George (magician), 12, 15

  Melville, Herman, 189, 358, 403

  Menjou, Adolphe, 207, 318

  Merry Widow, The, 154, 215-18

  Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. See MGM

  Mexico, 151, 335-42, 491

  MGM, 115, 118, 146-47, 154, 206-7, 213, 380, 397, 483

  Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 168, 420

  Monkey Business, 436, 441

  Morrison, Marion Marshall. See Wayne, John

  Motion Picture Patents Company, 29, 30, 33-34, 38-39, 117. See also Film Trust

  Murray, Mae, 51, 212, 215-17

  N.A.A.C.P., 418-21, 425, 437, 449

  Nabokov, Vladimir, 9, 23

  Negri, Pola, 195-96

  Neilan, Mickey (Marshall), 18, 51, 93, 145-46, 149, 153, 156, 259, 468-69

  Nettles (pigeon breeder), 321, 325

  New York, 4, 5, 6, 9, 14, 22, 27, 33, 38, 39, 43, 73, 103, 107, 109, 125, 139, 158, 163, 191, 279, 390-94, 395-403, 405, 453, 457

  New York Mail, The, 6, 22

  New York Times, The, 184 (excerpted), 221, 274

  Normand, Mabel, 150

  Novarro, Ramon, 147, 207, 212

  Oakie, Jack (stage name), 366-67, 492

  O’Fearna, Sean Aloysius. See Ford, John

  Offield, Lewis D. See Oakie, Jack

  Old Ironsides (film), 318-19

  Olympic Games, 475-78

  O’Neill, James (actor), 30, 31

  Palmer, Stuart (writer), 481, 492

  Paramount Pictures, 25, 40, 71-78, 86, 188, 195-96, 239, 268, 276, 319, 357-59, 365, 368, 370, 376-77, 381-82, 392, 397, 428, 430, 433, 439, 443, 463, 475, 486

  Parsons, Louella O., 17, 126, 183, 291, 430

  Photoplay, 81, 195

  Pickford, Mary (stage name), 8, 18, 31, 36-38, 43, 46, 48-51, 58, 64, 73-74, 76-77, 81, 95-97, 101, 195

  Pigeon racing, 321-27, 492

  Pinsker (Adeline Schulberg’s uncle), 9-10

  Plastic Age, The, 159, 160-63, 165, 169

  Porter, Edwin S., 11-18, 20-21, 23, 25, 28-31, 35, 36, 38, 39-41

  Powers, Pat, 62-63

  Preferred Pictures, 100-101, 113, 121, 134, 138, 188

  Queen Elizabeth (film), 31-33, 34

  Quid, The. See Boyden, Frank

  Racism, 46-47, 131, 204-5, 282-83, 417-21, 425, 437

  Rapf, Grandmother (Harry Rapf’s mother), 205-6, 238

  Rapf, Harry, 149, 204, 205-6, 306, 380-81

  Rapf, Maurice, 149, 204-8, 210-13, 223-27, 231-38, 252-53, 317-19, 321-27, 360-61, 407, 465-66, 470-72, 491, 492-93

  Rapf, Tima, 205-6

  Ray, Mutt (Deerfield student), 410-11, 412-13, 441-42

  RCA, 397, 443, 444, 460

  Reeves, Arch (Paramount publicity), 357, 378, 379

  Rice Elmer (writer), 401-2

  RKO, 397, 444, 481-82

  Roche, Joe (writer), 22-23

  Rogers St. John, Adela 311-13

  Rogers St. John, Elaine, 313, 464

  Roland, Gilbert, 160, 168

  Roosevelt, Franklin, D., 424, 460

  Roosevelt, Theodore, 117-18

  Rugg, Elaine (author’s friend), 472-74, 492

  Russia, 4, 9-10, 61, 64-65, 115, 406, 421-25

  Santa Fe Chief (train), 83-86, 113, 140, 141, 145, 259, 307, 433, 450, 455

  Schulberg, Adeline (mother), 4, 6, 8, 9, 21-23, 44-48, 53-55, 73, 75, 77, 86-87, 92-94, 99-101, 107, 122-23, 137, 143-45, 166-68, 171-72, 189, 193-99, 203, 225-26, 254-55, 260, 282, 291, 295-97, 306, 350-51, 353-55, 375, 395-96, 398, 400-3, 405-6, 421-25, 438-40, 445-47, 464-65, 475, 483-90

  Schulberg, B. P. (father), 6-8, 11, 14-18, 21-23, 25, 30-37, 39-40, 44-51, 53, 57-58, 61, 66-67, 72-79, 80 (excerpted), 81, 84-85, 86-87, 95-101, 103-10, 117, 119-21, 131-43, 154-55, 157-59, 166, 170-76, 181-82, 187-89, 194-99, 218-20, 227, 231-32, 244-47, 254-55, 257-58, 260-63, 265-71, 273, 306, 349-51, 353-55, 358-60, 375-78, 382-84, 427, 429-30, 432-433, 438-40, 444, 453, 458-62, 488-90, 493-94

  Schulberg, Sarah (grandmother), 5, 457-58

  Schulberg, Simon, 5-6, 25, 38, 116

  Schulberg, Sonya (sister), 44-45, 193, 198-99, 225-26, 228, 254-55, 281, 296, 313, 374, 398, 405, 438, 446, 464, 468, 473, 487-88

  Schulberg, Stuart (brother), 254-55, 313, 331, 374, 416, 464, 487-88

  Scottsboro Boys, 420-21

  Screen Club, The, 20-21, 22

  Selig, Colonel William N., 18, 114, 116-19

  Selznick, David, 61, 69, 306, 360, 396-400, 480-82

  Selznick, Irene (wife of David), 396-98, 480. See also Mayer, Irene

  Selznick, Lewis J., 61-69, 100, 396

  Selznick, Myron (brother of David), 67-69, 396, 446-47

  Sennett, Mack, 21, 90

  Shadows, 132-34

  Shannon, Peggy, 367

  Shearer, Norma, 148, 212, 291, 318, 398

  Shoulder Arms, 77-78, 203

  Sidney, Sylvia, 351, 353-56, 358, 373-75, 381, 382-84, 393, 424, 431, 439, 443, 444, 459, 461, 487

  Sinclair, Upton, 168, 370, 421

  Skippy, 347

  Smith, Gladys. See Pickford, Mary

  Sound, 176-77, 224, 376

  Squaw Man, The, 8, 59-60

  Stalin, Joseph, 422-24

  Stammering (by author), 53-55, 62, 100, 164, 317, 330-34, 411, 438

  Stanton, Mrs. (U.S.C. professor), 384, 416, 492

  Star is Born, A, 366

  Steffens, Lincoln, 370, 406, 420, 438, 479

  Stevenson, Robert Louis, 165, 248, 358-59

  Stewart, Anita, 90, 93, 100, 121-22, 125

  Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, The, 358-59, 366, 428

  Swanson, Gloria, 93, 121, 259, 304, 371

  Talmadge, Constance and Norma, 64

  Tarbell, Eaton (Deerfield student), 411-12, 455

  Tashman, Lilyan, 308-9

  Taylor, Elizabeth, 130-31

  Taylor, William Desmond, 90, 150

  Temple B’nai B’rith, 189, 191, 232-38

  Tess of the D’Urbervilles (film), 149, 153

  Tess of the Storm Country, 8

  Thalberg, Irving, 51, 65, 136, 138-39, 148-49, 265, 304-6, 318, 360, 380, 398

  Thirty-Odd Years (B.P.’s unfinished novel), vii

  Thomas, A. W. (writer), 7

  Thomas, Olive (stage name), 64, 67-9

  Tolstoy, Leo, 189

  Trust, The. See Film Trust

  Twain, Mark, 358

  20th Century Limited (train), 81-83, 395, 450, 459

  “Ugly” (author’s short story), 198, 273, 384, 416

  Underworld. 241-42, 256, 265, 275

  United Artists, 76-78, 86-87, 95-98, 100

  Universal Film Manufacturing Company, 19, 62-63, 69, 92, 96

  Unsell, Eve (writer), 132, 133, 188

  Urban Military Academy, 202-3

  Valentino, Rudolph, 51, 133

  Velez, Lupe, 266, 286, 338-39

  Vidor, King, 282

  Viertel, Salka, 396, 400, 401

  Vitagraph, 63, 100

  von Sternberg, Joseph, 220, 241-44, 265, 275-79, 291, 318, 451

  von Stroheim, Erich, 51, 121, 139,
149-50, 153-54, 212, 215-21

  Warner Brothers, 204

  Warner, Jack, 292, 360

  Wayne, John (stage name), 134, 202, 365-66

  Wellman, William (Wild Bill), 265-66, 269-71

  West, Mae, 487

  Wilkerson, Billy (publisher), 144-45, 479-80

  Wilma (governess), 44-47, 188, 281-83

  Wings, 236, 265-71, 275

  Wolfe, Thomas, 396

  Wright, William Lord (writer), 18-19

  Wurtzel, Sol, 449-50, 455

  Young, Clara Kimbell, 63, 69, 100

  Young, Felix (producer), 305-6, 373-74, 380, 431, 443, 463

  Zanuch, Darryl, 301-2

  Zeidman, Benny (writer), 481-82

  Zeleznick, L. J. See Selznick, L. J.

  Zukor, Adolph, 8, 11, 25-34, 36-40, 43, 48-50, 57-58, 60-61, 65-69, 71-75, 98, 187-88, 270-71, 350, 357, 376, 391-92, 486

  Zukor, Lottie, 32, 54

  ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

  BACKGROUND MATERIAL FOR THIS work, particularly in the early chapters, has been drawn from B. P. Schulberg’s unpublished manuscript, Thirty-Odd Years.

  In the course of writing this book, the author has received invaluable editorial suggestions, at first from his late wife, Geraldine Brooks, and later from Jeanne Bernkopf, Maurice Rapf, Betsy Langman Schulberg, Alyss Dorese, and Sol Stein.

  Over the years, Stan Silverman unselfishly has read and reread the manuscript with both friendly heart and critical eye, a combination that has aided and greatly encouraged its progress. The writer is also grateful to Mabel Nowark, whose magic fingers typed and retyped the manuscript around the clock, oblivious of weekends. To all the above, and to others who helped along the way—as we say in Mexico—“a thousand thank-you’s.”

  —Brookside, February 1981

  A Biography of Budd Schulberg

  Budd Schulberg (1914–2009) was a celebrated screenwriter, novelist, playwright, and journalist best remembered for his classic novel What Makes Sammy Run? (1941) and his Academy Award–winning screenplay for On the Waterfront. Schulberg was the first major American novelist to grow up in Hollywood, a town with which he had a complex and sometimes contentious relationship.

  Born Seymour Wilson Schulberg on March 27, 1914, in New York City, Schulberg and his family relocated to Los Angeles a few years later. His father, Ben “B. P.” Schulberg, became one of the most prominent movie producers in the 1920s and ’30s, so Schulberg grew up among movie stars and powerful studio executives. His mother, Adeline Jaffe, was a talent agent who later became one of the first female literary agents. Both of Schulberg’s parents valued authors and literature, and cultivated Schulberg’s literary ambitions throughout his childhood. More than acting, though, Schulberg revered boxing; his father introduced him to the sport and to some of the era’s champions. His fascination with boxing would influence much of his writing career, including his 1947 novel The Harder They Fall.

  Schulberg attended Dartmouth College and graduated in 1936. He then worked in Hollywood as a writer (collaborating with F. Scott Fitzgerald, among others) while working on his first novel, What Makes Sammy Run? Once it was published, the book set off shockwaves with its frank exposure of the dark side of Hollywood’s golden era. The novel angered real-life industry heads and damaged his own father’s career. Schulberg was fired from his scriptwriting job with Samuel Goldwyn and nearly blacklisted in the filmmaking business.

  During World War II, Schulberg worked for the OSS, the predecessor of the CIA. In 1945, director John Ford tasked him to help assemble film evidence of the horrors of the Nazi concentration camps to be used during the Nuremberg trials. This was the first time that film evidence was used in a trial to convict. He compiled footage shot by German filmmakers, including Leni Riefenstahl, who was arrested by Schulberg himself and brought to Nuremberg to help aid the prosecution.

  In 1951, Schulberg was called before the House Un-American Activities Committee to testify about his former involvement with the Communist Party. Though he had been a member of the party for six years, he had quit after a bitter disagreement with party members who wanted to vet his script for What Makes Sammy Run?. During his testimony, he identified several fellow Hollywood figures as Communists. The HUAC trials caused another rift between Schulberg and the film industry, with many feeling that his testimony betrayed friends and colleagues.

  Despite this setback, Schulberg soon had his greatest film success, with his screenplay for On the Waterfront, directed by Elia Kazan. The movie, about New Jersey longshoremen whose lives are controlled by the Mob, won eight Academy Awards and also evolved into a novel (1955) and a play (1988), both written by Schulberg. He soon reunited with Kazan, turning the title story from his collection Some Faces in the Crowd (1954) into a screenplay for the influential film A Face in the Crowd (1957), which launched the career of actor Andy Griffith.

  Throughout his career, Schulberg worked as a journalist and essayist, often writing about boxing, a lifelong passion. Many of his writings on the sport are collected in Sparring with Hemingway (1995) and Ringside (2006). Other highlights from Schulberg’s nonfiction career include Moving Pictures (1981), an account of his upbringing in Hollywood, and Writers in America (1973), a glimpse of some of the famous novelists he met early in his career.

  Schulberg married four times and had five children. He died at his home on Long Island in 2009.

  Schulberg’s parents, Adeline and B. P. Schulberg, hold an infant Budd in this early family portrait.

  Schulberg and his fourth wife, Betsy Schulberg, in Westhampton Beach, New York, in 2003. © 2003 Ken Regan

  Schulberg at work on his typewriter. At the top of this photo, he wrote the following note to his son: “For Benn, To a happy and productive life ahead! Love, Dad 8/14/2003.”

  Schulberg’s father, B. P. Schulberg.

  Origin: Culver Pictures Inc.

  Schulberg, B.P. (1892-1957), American film producer and executive

  “This picture is loaned for one reproduction only. Must not be used for advertising without written permission.”

  A portrait of Schulberg in 2003, with the following note to his son at the bottom: “For my dear son and best friend Benn with all my love, Dad 8/14/2003.”

  The Schulberg family in Westhampton, New York. From left to right: Jessica, Budd, Betsy, and Benn.

  From left to right: Schulberg, actress Geraldine Fitzgerald, Elia Kazan, and actress Myrna Loy.

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  A letter from Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis to Schulberg, praising Moving Pictures, dated September 19, 1981.

  Brothers Stuart Schulberg and Budd Schulberg (from left to right) on the set of Wind Across the Everglades, a film written by Budd and produced by Stuart, in 1958.

  Budd Schulberg with his second wife, Virginia Anderson, at the pool outside his eighteenth-century farmhouse, Inghamdale, near New Hope, Pennsylvania, with Schulberg’s children David, Steve, and Victoria. This photo was taken around 1949.

  Schulberg with fellow members of the U.S. military, taken during World War II.

  Schulberg with sons David and Steve.

  Schulberg with Geraldine Brooks and pet cat at their family house on Long Island in the mid-1970s.

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  Except for the stills, all photographs in this book are from the private collections of Sonya, Budd, and Ad Schulberg
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